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pinscreened adj. Drunk to the point where each movement leaves a separate impression, producing an uncertain three-dimensional record. Tempestt, pinscreened, appeared in successive positions around the kitchen without admitting to travel. pinsealed adj. Drunk in a way that leaves you leathery, young-seal-soft, and best left near the sofa. pinselled adj. Drunk enough to represent an absent authority with a triangular flag and no apparent mandate. Idellia, pinselled, stood for the missing host and issued clan-like instructions about the pudding. pinsettered adj. Drunk in a way that repeatedly clears the consequences and reinstates them elsewhere. pinsettinged adj. Drunk to a degree that fallen arrangements are restored compulsively, though seldom correctly. pinspoted adj. Drunk to the extent of directing a narrow, unwavering attention upon one object of no consequence. Anne-frederique became pinspoted and illuminated a single breadstick with sustained intellectual interest. pinspottered adj. Drunk on the strength of repeatedly restoring what has fallen, whether or not it belonged there. pinspottinged adj. Drunk since last orders, and still engaged in the narrow detection and correction of fallen things. pinstriped (/ˈpɪnˌstɹaɪpd/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and presenting a thin, formal surface over increasingly informal proceedings. pinstripered adj. Softened by drink into a morning-after painter of fine parallel lines on anything left within reach. Tyzion was pinstripered, applying morning-after precision to the landlord’s envelopes. pinstripinged adj. Sharpened by drink into seeing every morning-after crease as an invitation to apply narrow lines. Parley was pinstripinged, and found the breakfast cloth insufficiently ornamented. pint glassed adj. Emboldened by drink to face the morning after as though another large vessel might improve matters. Decatur got pint glassed and addressed the empty tumbler before attempting toast. pint potted adj. Drunk and treating the morning’s tea as a handled container requiring the respect due to beer. pintabled adj. Drunk enough to spend the morning ricocheting between breakfast decisions with the bright conviction of a pinball. Maymouna woke pintabled, rebounding from the kettle to the fridge without completing either task. pintadaed adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a guinea fowl from the morning alarm, and answering both noisily. Kallissa woke pintadaed and challenged the neighbour’s cockerel from the landing. pintadoed adj. Drunk beyond the morning’s capacity for plain surfaces, preferring everything softly patterned and faintly historical.